Microsoft® Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator's Companion (Pro -Administrator's Campanion) [Paperback]

Jim Harrison (Author), Yuri Diogenes (Author), Mohit Saxena (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 8, 2010 | Series: Pro -Administrator's Campanion

Get your Web security, network perimeter security, and application layer security gateway up and running smoothly. This indispensible, single-volume reference details the features and capabilities of Microsoft® Forefront® Threat Management Gateway (TMG). You'll gain the real-world insights, implementation and configuration best practices, and management practices you need for on-the-job results. Discover how to:

• Implement TMG
• integrated security features
• Analyze your Web and perimeter security requirements and infrastructure
• Plan, install, and configure TMG
• Implement network intrusion prevention, proxy, caching, filtering
• Configure security for the Web, Microsoft® Exchange Server, and SharePoint® Products and Technologies
• Implement remote access and site-to-site VPNs
• Select and configure clients
• Monitor and troubleshoot protected systems with Network Monitor 3 and other tools
• Use scripting to configure systems and automate administration
• Plus, get a fully searchable eBook on the companion CD

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Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Yuri Diogenes is a Microsoft senior support escalation engineer specializing in Forefront Edge Security. He is coauthor of the Forefront Community Site "Tales from the Edge", writes Forefront security articles for Microsoft TechNet Magazine, and is a primary contributor to the Microsoft ISA Server Team Blog. Before joining Microsoft, Yuri was a network advisor for a Microsoft Gold Partner and taught Network and Operating System disciplines at the University in Brazil.

Jim Harrison is a program manager on the Microsoft Forefront Edge Security Team who also designs integrated security solutions for Microsoft extranets and intranets. He is the coauthor of Microsoft's Forefront Community Page "Tales from the Edge". Jim is a former tester on the Microsoft ISA Server Sustained Engineering Team, and prior to that, served as an electronics technician for the US Navy.

Mohit Saxena is a senior technical lead on the Microsoft Forefront Edge Security Team. He advises Microsoft Support Escalation Engineers on Forefront Edge Security support issues, bugs, and design changes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1056 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; Pap/Cdr edition (February 8, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735626383
• ISBN-13: 978-0735626386
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.7 x 8.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good resource, but lacking January 28, 2011

By Nathan Reynolds

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Overall, the book is an excellent resource for those new to TMG/ISA configuration. It describes several of the new features present in TMG, but I was amazed to see that it had absolutely no information on arrays. Arrays are an extremely important addition to TMG, with both the Standard and Enterprise versions of the product able to utilize array functionality.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good manual for TMG April 6, 2010

By J. Burke

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This book is thorough and well written from a technical aspect. It is also the only Threat Management Gateway book in print at this time, as far as I know.

The only strikes against it...

It is dry, as you would expect from most technical manuals. There is none of the humor of Mark Minasi or the exuberance of Tom Shinder's writing.

I have come across a couple items that I think are incorrect due to the book having been written before TMG 2010 was actually released. Microsoft Press has a section on their website for updates to books, but as of my writing this, no corrections have been posted.

Some of the concepts in here could probably use a little more thorough explanation (for me it was NLB). But all in all, a well done book. At this point in time, I would consider this a must-purchase if you are going to use TMG 2010.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars TMG Book Review April 1, 2010

By Peter Duynstee

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Excellent book, well written. Very strong in technical detail.

I would suggest this book is for the more experienced user and for those who want to learn and come to understand what makes this software tick and the principles that drive it.

If you are looking for a quickie setup guide then this will not do it for you.
This books' weakness is lack of detail in describing how to set up and configure TMG up from scratch.